Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I’m probably the opposite of you two. I always have some sort of noise. If things get quiet at work, I get sleepy. Most of my jobs in high school through now were either in retail and food service where sound is piped in, or there’s always chatter, or in construction sites with all the noise that goes along with it. The perk of my current workspace being across town from the rest of admin staff means I get to put a movie or show on if I need to. My coworker rocks Christmas music for her stress relief 😂

@KarateLuigi @Tyranexx I'm very much the same as you two. I expect an office at be like a library. Quiet enough to hear pins drop and anything more than a whisper is a capitol offense. So naturally everyone is loud like they're at a football game all the time and i just go check what you guys are saying because i certainly can't focus though to actually work......

And sounds of tree shredders and such send me into a near violent anxious rage until it stops..... Usually hours later. The world was not this invasive 25 years ago. People changed. And not for the better.

I fear silence. It’s deafening, and I can’t concentrate. If I’m working around the house or at the office, I have music or a podcast going. Side conversations don’t bother me, and I run a fan while I sleep year round. Sometimes I enjoy a few minutes of quiet if my family clears out of the house and I stay behind, but that’s about all I can handle.

@bimmy-lee That’s exactly how I am. Too much silence is disconcerting to me.

@bimmy-lee I don't know I'd go as far as to say I fear silence, but I definitely prefer there to be some sound. I sleep with the sound of rain playing in my apartment every night and when I am home, I almost always have a Twitch stream or YouTube video playing if I'm not watching or playing something else.

I find it's much harder to fall asleep without some kind of sound in the background. In silence, my mind wanders and even if I am really tired it keeps me awake, thinking about what I did that day or have to do the next.

I like a fan not only for the noise I’ve grown accustomed to, but also because I like being cold when it’s time to sleep.

I finished Midsommar. Holy. Crap. This Ari Aster fella (the director) is a master of gut wrenching tension. I’m disturbed in a great way.

@HobbitGamer - Are you me? I like it cold as well. There’s no way I can fall asleep if I’m hot. I also need the air movement. I don’t like when a room starts to feel stagnant. I run our ceiling fans non stop to keep the air moving throughout the house. I’m a Vornado fan fan myself. I have them in all the bedrooms and one for the main floor. They make a nice noise, and they’re designed so they can also run lying flat on the floor shooting the air vertically.

@Heavyarms55 - Fear was probably hyperbole, but I’m definitely not comfortable with silence, or as much as silence is possible. I’m the same when it comes to sleeping. I don’t like to hear every tiny noise in the house, and the silence also makes my mind race. I’ll lay there for hours without some white noise, but I can fall asleep in minutes with a fan running. I have a white noise app on my phone for when I’m away from home, and I usually choose the rain option. It’s a decent substitute for my fan when I’m away from home,

@bimmy-lee Fair enough. I suppose I should have assumed such. I used a fan in university because it didn't bother my roommates. But for the last several years I've used a 12 hour loop of recorded rain.

And yeah, especially living alone, hearing things in the house without white noise will keep me up too.

@bimmy-lee Yeah. It took me a while to process the movie and decide how I felt. I think that’s due to how Aster really rides this gray area of beautiful transcendence and emotional devastation. It’s especially uncomfortable if you have ever teetered on that line in life. Not in the same way as the character in the movie, but as a result of another experience.

Someone called me a pathetic childish immature man that wasn't supposed to watch Dora the movie just because it aimed to kids. 😒

@Anti-Matter Here or in real life?
If in real life, try reminding them that different people have individual preferences and that if we all liked the same things, it would be boring.

@Matthew010
There was an user talked bad about me on Sonic movie updated thread.
Just scroll on replies around 90++

@Anti-Matter Use the report button it is there for a reason. No need to make posts here about it as it looks like you are asking "mommy" to stop the bad man.

@Anti-Matter I'll see i there's anything I can do!

Aw, man....
My backside bike's wheel has exploded after being filled by air pump this evening.

I can't go to my local game arcade to play DDR A20 Arcade over there.
I will try to fix my bike ASAP so i can play DDR A20 Arcade tomorrow after working time.

@ThanosReXXX
"I'm at least a 1000% (yes, a thousand) sure that no sheep anywhere on this Earth says "mbeek", unless it was a Muppet... "

Oh, pardon about Buaya (Crocodile).
It was a metaphor of Womanizer.
In Indonesia, womanizer = Buaya Darat (Land Crocodile).

@ThanosReXXX it’s mostly the same onomatopoeia, it’s just that the letters themselves have different sounds in different languages and accents.

Also, some may be different to make them seem cuter, or it’s an interpretation of a different sound. For example, a dog can bark, growl, whimper, and make all kinds of sounds.

@Anti-Matter Yup, pictures or not, still bad and inaccurate. Listen with your ears, not with your head, and all of us around the world, should hear exactly the same sounds.

@StableInvadeel True, but there's a distinct difference between ACTUALLY imitating the sound of an animal, or trying to phonetically spell out what it sounds like. The latter gets all sorts of weird variants, which is obviously indeed due to local accents and languages, but the actual sound should be the same.

A sheep says baaaa, beeeeh, or meeeeh, not mbeek. That to me can only be read in two ways: em-beek or muh-beek, neither of which make any kind of sense nor does it even remotely come close to what a sheep sounds like, and that goes regardless of your country of origin or accent. It's simple listening, if you ask me. (Oh, and especially screw the French and their ridiculous rooster interpretation. Who the hell has ever heard a rooster say "coco-rico"?)

If you look at that first video I posted, then you'll see that only a small handful of the Japanese sounds made are comparable to Western interpretations, but some, like the pig, make no sense whatsoever, that's just cartoon interpretations of what it's supposed to be. I'd even go so far as to say that it's almost, if not entirely, childlike in nature. And don't get me started on the Japanese version of the snake and the monkey in that video...

And Japanese cats are supposedly saying "nyan" instead of meow. That's just weird. Arguably, we should actually remove all consonants from these sounds, because most animals don't have the same kind of lips as humans, or some don't even have lips at all, and as such, they would never even be able to produce sound like us. So a cats "meow" for example, actually sounds closer to "weow" or "eow" instead of what we make of it.

Oh, well... suffice to say that this is LITERALLY a pet peeve of mine. In regards to subjects like these, I just can't stand things that don't make sense when compared to facts or logic.

At least in spanish "nyan" does sound like a sound a cat would make. If you say it over and over, at least...

My brother's cat meows kinda like that. Like, "Myyaaaa!", all cutesy. She doesn't really end with the w sound.